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...better showing was made earlier in the week by Emerson Whithorne, onetime (1907-09) husband of Conductor Leginska, whose New York Days and Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...
...Sodality gave its first concert of the season on Friday evening at the Thompson's Island Orphan House, under the auspices of the Phillips. Brooks House Association. Fingal's Cave Mendelssohu Egmont Overture Beethoven...
...Beethoven Symphony Orchestra, Georges Zaslawsky, conductor, made its debut as a permanent organization, gave an excellent first program, surprised critics of last year...
...first of the golden anniversary concerts given last week Walter Damrosch was not in his usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, Walter Damrosch himself, Maurice Ravel, coming from France, and Enrique Fernandez Arbós of the Madrid...
...Society of the Friends of Music, Arthur Bodanzky conducting the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, announced Beethoven's Misso Solemnis for its first concert, Oct. 30, promised nine others for alternate Sunday afternoons, beginning...